With all my gripes with# Signal (centralized, non-federated, server-based, Electron-based desktop app), the fact that in my circle of contacts it's not longer the "pretty good solution we should be using" but the "pretty good solution we are using but looking for something better" is such a win.I just wanted to stop for a second and appreciate that.If we're talking …Wednesday, 23-May-2018 13:33:38 EDTfrom mastodon.socialpermalinkRepeated by mmn

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With all my gripes with# Signal (centralized, non-federated, server-based, Electron-based desktop app), the fact that in my circle of contacts it's not longer the "pretty good solution we should be using" but the "pretty good solution we are using but looking for something better" is such a win.I just wanted to stop for a second and appreciate that.If we're talking …Wednesday, 23-May-2018 13:33:38 EDTfrom mastodon.socialpermalink

PinMe, a novel user-location mechanism that exploits non-sensory/sensory data stored on the smartphone, e.g., the environment's air pressure, along with publicly-available auxiliary information, e.g., elevation maps, to estimate the user's location when all location services, e.g., GPS, are turned off.

Fabrication-Time Attacks on CPUs: Ken Thompson was right While the move to smaller transistors has been a boon for performance it has dramatically increased the cost to fabricate chips using those smaller transistors. This forces the vast majority of chip design companies to trust a third party—often overseas—to fabricate their design. To guard against shipping chips with erro…Wednesday, 25-May-2016 11:16:45 EDTfrom joindiaspora.compermalinkRepeated by bobjonkman2

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Fabrication-Time Attacks on CPUs: Ken Thompson was right While the move to smaller transistors has been a boon for performance it has dramatically increased the cost to fabricate chips using those smaller transistors. This forces the vast majority of chip design companies to trust a third party—often overseas—to fabricate their design. To guard against shipping chips with erro…Wednesday, 25-May-2016 11:16:45 EDTfrom joindiaspora.compermalink